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US Student Privacy at Risk Due to School Social Media Posts

A useful and positive aspect of using student pictures on your school’s website and social media platforms is that it creates a sense of community and culture for current and prospective parents. Personalising your school website with students’ and...

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Academy Trust Handbook 2021 - Cyber Security

The Academy Financial Handbook has been updated and renamed as the Academy Trust Handbook. The requirements and guidance within the handbook has been...

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Malware Update: Education Malware Morphs to be Undetectable

A new programming language ‘Go’ or ‘Golang’ is being used to specifically target schools. Once successfully executed, the Trojan enables remote...

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€300,000 Hurdle for Sports Club: GDPR

Not all sports clubs have €300,000 just kicking about. However, last week we saw an unnamed football association get hit with a large fine due to...

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NCSC Alert: Ransomware Still An Increasing Risk

The National Cyber Security Centre (“NCSC”) recently released a formal alert informing schools on yet another increase in ransomware attacks within...

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Lonely Malware Seeking School for Unfriendly Encounter

The FBI has recently identified a primary malware that is designed to target schools. They have been tracking this since March 2020, and in March...

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Improving Cybersecurity In Independent UK Schools

Cybersecurity can be daunting at the best of times, but it doesn’t have to be. When we speak of the term ‘cybersecurity’, we are actually speaking of...

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How To Process Biometric Data Appropriately

Schools are increasingly gravitating towards automated biometric systems for the authentication and security of their students. These systems are...

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data privacy

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Evaluating Safeguarding Data Risk with DPIA: Child Protection

A Data Protection Impact Assessment (“DPIA”) is a type of risk assessment in which an organisation identifies the data protection risks associated...

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What your school can do in response to Everyone’s Invited

Everyone’s Invited has given voice to many victims of sexual violence, abuse and harassment in schools and universities across the UK and further...

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Easter/Spring Break Cyber Attack Update: Slash Vulnerabilities by 85%

The National Cyber Security Centre in the UK updated their guidance on the 23rd March 2021 regarding imminent cyber attacks on education...

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9ine Partners with Japan Council of International Schools (JCIS)

The Japan Council of International Schools (JCIS) partners with 9ine to support schools with maintaining the highest levels of data protection,...

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9ine Partners with ICAISA: Elevating School Accreditation

9ine Partners with The International Council Advancing Independent School Accreditation (ICAISA) to Transform Data Privacy and Cyber Protections...

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Are you insured against cyberthreats

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Why Schools May Lose Cyber Threat Insurance Coverage

Recent research from Microsoft suggests that education providers across the world are increasingly falling victim to malware encounters. In January...

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